Fighting chance global trends and shocks in the national security environment

Compiled to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing security environment, this important collection grew out of an innovative Department of Defense (DOD) workshop. The book's purpose is to examine strategic trends, their defense relevance, how they may overlap to produce strategic "shock...

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Other Authors: Arnas, Neyla (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. Potomac Books 2009
Edition:First edition
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Table of Contents:
  • Conflict / Michael Moodie
  • Global demographics / Carl Haub
  • Economics and energy / David F. Gates
  • Environment and energy / Goeffrey D. Dabelko
  • Health care / Peter Katona
  • Nanotachnology / Neil Jacobstein
  • Cyberspace / Gregory J. Rattray
  • Life sciences / Robert E. Armstrong and Mark D. Drapeau
  • Culture and identity in the Middle East : how they influence governance / Dale F. Eickelman
  • Africa / William M. Bellamy
  • China / Robert S. Ross
  • Europe and NATO / Ian O. Lesser
  • Russia and Eurasia / Steven Pifer
  • South Asia / Michael Krepon
  • Latin America / Edward Schumacher-Matos
  • Challenges for national security organizations and leadership development : trends and shocks in complex adaptive systems / Transformation Chairs Network
  • Summarizing the trends and shocks / Neyla Arnas
  • Postscript : "Swans happen" / Robert E. Armstrong